416: The Children of the Future Jay Belsky, PhD
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Children of the Future
Jay Belsky, PhD
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“I don’t know the meaning of life, but I know the purpose of life. It is to create more life.”
- Jay Belsky
We’re cavemen pretending to be academic, political, cerebral, and romantic when really we’re mostly motivated by survival and procreation. This is simultaneously depressing and relieving since it explains away some of our most ridiculous actions. On this week’s podcast, Professor Belsky will share with us his life’s research around adaptation, the importance of fatherhood, and a potential “better way” than the American model for child-rearing.
Listen & Learn:
- How behaviors often labelled maladapted are really perfectly adapted given the environments some children are raised in
- How to think about the role of the mother vs. the father in a child’s life
- Why fathers run away and mother’s stay
- The hardcore truth about the purpose of life
Links & Resources:
- Jay’s new book, The Origins of You
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Professor Jay Belsky is an expert in child development and family studies. He specializes in daycare, parent-child relations during the infancy and early childhood years, the transition to parenthood, the etiology of child maltreatment and the evolutionary basis of parent and child functioning. He is the author of more than 300 scientific articles and chapters and the author/editor of several books, including, The National Evaluation of Sure Start: Does Area-Based Early Intervention Work.
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| 0:00.0 | I've read this very strange time in human history where we're essentially cavemen walking around, |
| 0:09.3 | trying to be academic, trying to be intellectual, trying to be political, trying to be romantic. be what we are is we're cave-min we haven't really evolved much in 20 30 40,000 years and |
| 0:25.9 | what that means to be a caveman is that survival and procreation underpin just about |
| 0:30.9 | everything that we do just about everything we do. Just about everything we do, whether it's the anxiety, |
| 0:35.0 | keeping us up at night, |
| 0:37.0 | whether it's the tingling sensation |
| 0:40.0 | we feel between our legs when we see some color red or whatever it is almost |
| 0:43.7 | everything is driven by survival and procreation this is is really |
| 0:49.2 | depressing on one level to realize it's really relieving on another level. |
| 0:53.8 | And then when we take a look at the product of that, which are children, the question |
| 0:58.2 | is, what do we do? |
| 0:59.4 | What do we do with our kids to hopefully raise a generation that has more opportunity, that is |
| 1:06.7 | better adjusted, that is more balanced than we are. |
| 1:09.2 | And the answer is I have no idea, but I'm trying to figure it out. |
| 1:11.7 | I've got three kids and even for those of you listening who don't have kids |
| 1:14.9 | My guess is that you have birth something this this need to procreate seems to manifest whether you have biological children or not. |
| 1:24.0 | Even if you don't have children, you're probably working on some farm or some non-profit project |
| 1:29.1 | or whatever it is we can't seem to stop this desire to carry on the gene line in one form or another. |
| 1:35.0 | So the question is how do we be how do we raise great kids? |
| 1:37.5 | How do we raise kids who are well-adjusted and well-adapted and balanced and positive and |
| 1:42.2 | who don't hate us when they're older and |
| 1:44.4 | I don't know the answer but I brought on a professor and a researcher somebody who's |
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